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May 2025
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In this newsletter
- EMCR Research Seminar Series
- Winter School
- Hackathon
- World Science Festival Brisbane
- Node Spotlight in Sydney
- inSTEM & Node Spotlight in Melbourne
- New Centre members
- Research highlights
- GETCO2 on Bluesky and YouTube
- Upcoming events
- Recent publications
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EMCR Research Seminar Series
The EMCR Committee is ready to launch the first GETCO2 EMCR Seminar Series!
The seminars will be held every two weeks via Teams (or hybrid, when feasible). Each session will feature two presentations by EMCRs for 15 minutes and 5 minutes Q&A each, with opportunities for open discussion and feedback. The Committee also plan to host longer invited seminars from distinguished speakers in academia and industry. Please email getco2@uq.edu.au if you would like to be added to the calendar invitations.
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Winter School
Join us in Brisbane from 23 - 24 July for the 2025 GETCO2 Winter School for GETCO2 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students! If you haven’t already, please register here.
Registrations close Thursday 15 May 2025 (11:59pm).
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HACKATHON
We are thrilled to introduce the first GETCO2 Hackathon Challenge 2025! We invite our EMCRs to team up and collaborate to solve an electrolyser challenge over 3 months. GETCO2 will support you all the way with support finding a team, mentoring workshops and pitch guides. ChallengeIdentify one potentially high-impact innovation spanning materials and their associated supply chains required to support a future where sustainable gigawatt-scale manufacturing and deployment of Power-to-X CO2 electrolysers becomes a reality.
With your innovation, please consider the long-term economic, environmental and social groups' sustainability surrounding the green electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide. You may wish to explore techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle analysis (LCA), overall circularity and potentially government policy settings as part of your analyses.Timeline
- Early May: EOI submissions open
- 22 July: Formal Hackathon launch at the GETCO2 Winter School
- 15 August: Deadline for submissions
- 20 November: Final Pitches and Awards at GETCO2’s annual conference
Stay tuned and learn more on the Hackathon Challenge website
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World Science Festival
In March, we opened our laboratory doors for the Labs Unlocked tours at the World Science Festival Brisbane! We loved connecting with curious minds, from young aspiring scientists to their equally enthusiastic parents. The questions they asked really kept us on our toes!
As an ARC Centre of Excellence, we are committed to showcasing our research and discoveries to a broader audience and to inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders.
Giving our EMCRs an opportunity to practise their presentation skills for an audience outside of academia is valuable in their professional development.
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Node Spotlight in Sydney
Our teams at USYD and UNSW held their first Sydney Node Spotlight event in late March.
Chief Investigators Yuan Chen and Fengwang Li, along with their students and postdoctoral researchers from USYD, visited Chuan Zhao and Yansong Shen’s groups at UNSW- and vice versa.
This 'tour de Node' was an opportunity for our early career researchers to explore various labs, equipment for synthesis and characterisation, and setups for large-scale electrode preparation.
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inSTEM
Registrations are still open for inSTEM 2025! inSTEM is a two-day conference for networking and career advancement designed for marginalised and underrepresented groups in STEM, along with their allies and mentors. See the full program here.
- Date: Tues 27th May – Wed 28th May 2025
- Location: Storey Hall, RMIT University, Naarm/Melbourne
- Registration: Register here
Ticket prices for Centre members, use access code ARCCOE25:
- $55 for Centre Members or
- $33 for attendance on a single day, either the 27th or the 28th
- Free for virtual video attendance
Talk to your supervisor about using your project account to book flights to attend both the inSTEM conference and Melbourne Node Spotlight (see below). Email getco2@uq.edu.au for more info and to book group accommodation.
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Melbourne Node Spotlight
We are excited to welcome you to Melbourne's first GETCO2 Node Spotlight on 26 May 2025 - the day before inSTEM! The event is hosted by RMIT with presentations from Melbourne-based Chief Investigators (RMIT and Monash), Associate Investigators, Partner Investigators, Postdoctoral researchers, and PhD students.
We will have a poster session and plenty of opportunities for networking.
A separate email has been sent with details! Please contact the Operations Team, getco2@uq.edu.au if you have any questions.
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New Centre members!
We wish all our new centre members a big welcome to the GETCO2 community:
- Postdoctoral researcher Dr Wengang Huang, UQ
- PhD student Aiping Zheng, RMIT
- Postdoctoral researcher Dr Jindi Yang, UQ
- Honours student Jack Buchanan, UQ
- Postdoctoral researcher Dr Francis McCallum, UQ
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Research Highlights
GETCO2 Chief Investigator Fengwang Li from the University of Sydney has been awarded the Le Fèvre Medal by The Australian Academy of Science! This award recognises outstanding basic research in chemistry and is a tribute to Fengwang’s research using renewable electricity to convert carbon dioxide into products such as ethylene. Learn more about Fengwang’s research here.
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GETCO2 on Bluesky and Youtube
 
GETCO2 is now on YouTube! You’ll find our first video here, where Dr Ray Bi and Dr Muxina Konarova demonstrate an electrolysis cell!
We also have a profile on BlueSky. Bluesky is a decentralised social networking platform (like Twitter/X) which is getting more popular, especially among researchers and academics. We aim to use the platform to promote our research publications. Please let our Communications & Engagement Officer Anna Knudsen know if you have a new paper to feature on Bluesky: getco2@uq.edu.au
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Upcoming events
- 26 May 2025: GETCO2 Melbourne Node Spotlight, RMIT University
- 27-28th May 2025: inSTEM Naarm/Melbourne, RMIT University
- 9 July 2025: Seminar: Accelerating climate technologies through the science of scale-up, Dr Thomas Moore (more information to follow)
- 22 July 2025: GETCO2 Hackathon Launch
- 22-24 July 2025: GETCO2 Winter School UQ – EMCR laboratory-based Electrolysis Masterclass; Combined with Experiment Design and Data Analysis Bootcamp, Brisbane
- 18-21 November 2025: GETCO2 Annual Conference, Sydney
- 8-11 December 2025: IMSTEC2025 Gold Coast, International Membrane Science and Technology Conference, Co-organiser: A/Prof Jingwei Hou
- 15-20 December 2025: Pacifichem2025 Hawaii, the International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Electrochemical CO2 Capture and Conversion (#CES018); Organisers: Dr Fengwang Li, Prof David Sinton, Assist Prof Dawei Feng
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For more publications, including 2023 and 2024, see getco2.org.
Bie, C., J. Yang, X. Zeng, Z. Wang, X. Sun, Z. Yang, J. Yu, and X. Zhang. "Nanoconfinement Effects in Electrocatalysis and Photocatalysis." Review, Small 21, no. 13 (2025). https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/smll.202411184.
Fan, H., F. Li, and A. Xu. "Green Hydrogen Economy: Scenarios Versus Technologies." Article, Energy and Fuels 39, no. 15 (2025): 7586-91. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5c01181.
Sahu, A. K., T. E. Rufford, S. H. Ali, R. Knibbe, S. Smart, F. Jiao, A. T. Bell, and X. Zhang. "Material Needs for Power-to-X Systems for Co2 Utilization Require a Life Cycle Approach." Review, Chemical Science 16, no. 14 (2025): 5819-35. https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d4sc07752k.
Tang, W., Y. Shen, Y. Yang, C. Li, Y. Li, S. Yin, F. Li, H. Li, and C. Li. "Amplifying Cation Effects on High-Curvature Nanostructures Via Enhancing Interfacial Electric Field for Co2rr to Multicarbon Product." Article, Nano Research 18, no. 3 (2025). https://dx.doi.org/10.26599/NR.2025.94907200.
Xie, Z., and J. Hou. "Industrialising Metal-Organic Frameworks─Bridging Laboratory Innovation and Future Applications." Article, Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 64, no. 16 (2025): 7941-55. https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.5c00579.
Zhu, D., H. W. Wu, W. K. Fong, R. F. Tabor, and J. Zhang. "The Ratio of Sp2 and Sp3 Hybridized Carbon Determines the Performance of Carbon-Based Catalysts in H2o2 Electrosynthesis from O2." Article, Angewandte Chemie - International Edition 64, no. 16 (2025). https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/anie.202500145.
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide (GETCO2) is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council.
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The ARC Centre of Excellence for Green Electrochemical Transformation of Carbon Dioxide acknowledges the Traditional Owners and their custodianship of the lands on which the Centre operates.
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